Document Type
Article in Response to Controversy
Abstract
I sometimes feel I’m stuck in an Alice-in-Wonderland world. Other times I feel that someone has created this bewilderment on purpose and I start looking for the Red Queen.
In 1983, President Ronald Reagan's National Commission on Excellence in Education submitted a report titled, "A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform." Since the publication of that report, we have suffered continual attempts at reform, having now arrived at a time when bureaucrats and politicians far removed from local community schools can use standardized test results to establish criteria for disciplining schools, removing principals and teachers, and defining school curricula. Reforms based on claims that our public schools do a terrible job and are a cause of America's weakened world position are not being driven by parents, local citizens, teachers, or local school boards.
Genre/Form
articles
Recommended Citation
Meier, Deborah
(2012)
"Is This What Democracy Looks Like? A Personal Retrospective,"
Journal of Educational Controversy: Vol. 6:
No.
1, Article 9.
Available at:
https://cedar.wwu.edu/jec/vol6/iss1/9
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
Democracy and education--United States; Educational accountability--United States; Educational change--United States; Educational tests and measurements--Standards--United States; Education--United States--Evaluation
Geographic Coverage
United States
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
Type
Text